Thankyou ladies for this post. My DS is 9 months and is having heaps of troubles with his cot. he goes to sleep fine but is waking every 2 hours after banging his head on the cot or getting his legs/arms caught in the bars. I think tonight I will try and put him on a mattress on the floor and see how he goes. Do you think 9 months is too young for that? Do your bubs ever fall off the mattress onto the floor? Jack's room has tiles so I would be worried about that. I might put a single mattress and then his cot mattress next to it.
Will let you all know how it goes.